Consulting

Director of Research, Dr. Alyssa Westring, shares insights on integrating work and the rest of life.

Wharton Professor Stew Friedman  has consulted nationally and internationally to non-profits, government agencies, and multi-national corporations on a wide range of organizational and leadership issues.

Stew and our Client Services team provide consultation and advice on establishing the readiness of your organization for a Total Leadership initiative, aligning the program’s goals and methods with essential HR systems to fully engage all essential actors, assessing the impact and implications of participants’ performance and skills improvements, and continually adapting to increasing demands for leadership and innovation.

Cultivating the Total Leadership Organization

Stew Friedman and our Client Services team provide consultation and advice on establishing the readiness of organizations for a Total Leadership initiative, aligning the program’s philosophy, goals, and methods with essential HR systems to fully engage all key stakeholders, assessing the impact and implications of participants’ performance and skills improvements, training internal executives and staff on how to deliver the TL program, and continually adapting implementation of the TL approach to best meet the ever-changing demands for leadership, innovation, and well-being.

Designing High-Engagement Learning Systems

As founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program (in 1991), global chief of leadership development for Ford Motor (1999-2001), early adopter and successful designer of online learning platforms, advisor to business schools and organizations around the world for decades, and CEO of Total Leadership, Stew Friedman has extensive experience in how to build and sustain learning systems that produce demonstrable improvements in both leadership capacity and employee well-being, create community through peer-to-peer learning and coaching, strengthen cross-generational connections by meaningfully engaging alumni, and increase business results by directly linking learning to performance.

Managing Talent for the Long Term

Since his ground-breaking dissertation on the selection and development of top-level leaders in large companies (at the University of Michigan in 1984), Stew Friedman has been a widely-recognized innovator in the field of talent management. He and his team have helped many organizations – large and small, including family-owned enterprises – to enhance the means by which employees at all levels are prepared and chosen for the next level of responsibility, design the management systems that support these activities (performance reviews, assessment of potential, the politics of selection decisions, etc.), and do so in ways that improve the attraction, retention, and health of the best people.

Innovating with Progressive Policies and Practices

Stew Friedman has long been a leading advocate for positive change in private and public sector policy and practice on working families. He has worked with organizations and government agencies (including two White House administrations and the United Nations), published research, organized major conferences, and served on advisory boards to inform the creation and implementation of policies that support family and medical leave for men and women and practices that enable smart flexibility in the design of work.

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